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There is a tower in that place, twenty-five meters high, full of burning ashes, provided with a revolving device on top, which sloped on all sides into ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Whoever robbed any sacred thing or committed any other notorious crime was brought up to the tower, and then, pushed into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
This was indeed a just punishment for him who had committed so many offenses against the Altar whose fire and ashes were sacred; and so, he met his death in ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
Put this out and the body turns to ashes, the spirit melts away like idle air. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 3)
Ashes, that is what his heart is; his hope cheaper than dust; (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
How can there be such pride in someone who is nothing but dust and ashes? Even while he is living, man's bowels are full of rottenness. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)
While the sun surveys the stars in the lofty sky, all men remain dust and ashes. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 32)
to the lowliest person sitting in dust and ashes and covered with sackcloth, there is anger, envy, trouble and unrest, fear of death, rivalry and quarrels. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 4)
On that day a man will raise a heifer and a couple of sheep, (Isaiah 7, 21)
Only one of deluded mind can hold on to ashes. Will he not save himself at least and confess, "What I hold is only a lie?" (Isaiah 44, 20)
Is that the kind of fast that pleases me, just a day for a man to humble himself? Is fasting merely bowing down one's head, and making use of sackcloth and ashes? Would you call that fasting, a day acceptable to Yahweh? (Isaiah 58, 5)
(to comfort those who mourn in Zion) and give them a garland instead of ashes, oil of gladness instead of mourning, and festal clothes instead of despair. They will be called oaks of integrity planted by Yahweh to show his glory. (Isaiah 61, 3)
